Based on author's own work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and his myriad collaborators - along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses, African villages, and anywhere music exists, this book shows how music emerges from cultural circumstance as much as individual creativity.[...]
A round-the-world bicycle tour with one of the most original artists of our day. Urban bicycling has become more popular than ever as recession- strapped, climate-conscious city dwellers reinvent basic transportation. In this wide-ranging memoir, artist/musician David Byrne-who has relied on a bike [...]
Reviews of the First Edition: "thoughtful, critical, comprehensive, genuine...Byrne's workshould prove compulsory reading for any critical and nuancedview of social exclusion." Progress in Human Geography "The presentation of a single, coherent argument is one of the strengths of thisbook...[It] fil[...]
Chaos and complexity are the new buzz words in both science and contemporary society. The ideas they represent have enormous implications for the way we understand and engage with the world. Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences introduces students to the central ideas which surround the chaos/c[...]
Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bicycle as his principal means of transportation in New York City. A few years later he discovered folding bikes, and starting taking them with him on music tour overseas, and experienced a sense of liberation as he pedalled around many of the wor[...]
How Music Works is an unparalleled account of a life in music and an explanation of how and why music works from one of the world's most accomplished performers. With his albums for Talking Heads, his work with Brian Eno or his solo output, David Byrne has been consistently at the forefront of music[...]
On the eve of Bern Porter's Centennial, his classic text, Found Poems, comes roaring back into print in a handsome new edition featuring two essays contextualizing his remarkable life and work. As Dick Higgins said, "Porter's Found Poems have the same seminal position as Duchamp's objets trouvees." [...]
In complex contemporary societies social science has become increasingly interwoven into the whole fabric of governance. At the same time there is an increasing recognition that attempts to understand the social world which seek to mimic the linear approaches of the conventional 'hard sciences' are [...]
Journeys inside the mind of the enigmatic co-founder of the Talking Heads in a compilation of drawings and diagrams that capture his most personal feelings, creativity, and mental landscape.[...]
"How Music Works" is David Byrne's remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. In it he explores how profoundly music is shaped by its time and place, and he explains how the advent of recording technology in the twentieth century forever changed our relat[...]
Together, these striking images create the ultimate style guide for anyone who pedals their way through the Big Apple. America may be a nation obsessed with automobiles, but today the bicycle is giving the car a run for its money. And while New York is just one of many cities that is implementing ne[...]
?Den goda människan i Greenwich Village? publicerades ursprungligen i nummer 2 1994 av Vanity Fair-inspirerade magasinet Intrig, vars slogan var ?Adjö tristess?. I Intrig, som gavs ut av Intellecta, kunde vi möta världsstjärnor som Madonna, Catherine Deneuve eller Federico Fellini och svenska s[...]